Membership renewal We’re well underway in the annual renewal of memberships and hoping that all of you will or already have renewed your membership to the ASGS. If you haven’t: Is there something in the way? What’s lacking? Is there something you’re unhappy about? You can reach out to me one-on-one for a private confidential conversation if that feels better. I’d like to know how the ASGS can better serve you.
Symposium Update Videos are rolling in and being processed in anticipation of showing them during the symposium. I am really excited about some of what’s in the pipeline: center flange and sidearms on a 100Liter flask, build a 200mm Square box out of boro plate, get a tour of the glass shop in Trondheim Norway, learn how to covert a soft glass neon electrode into a boro electrode, get an introduction to the glass engraving lathe. It’s going to be a good one. Don’t miss out. It will never be as inexpensive as this year. $100 for members $40 for students. All recordings will be available to watch for a month after the symposium in case you miss a day.
Artistic to Regular member change Randall Strait was approved for converting from artistic to regular membership. Congrats to Randall who is an incredible resource to the ASGS with his equipment skills, network of resources, and boundless friendliness and energy. Welcome!
Bylaws changes In case you don’t already know, the ASGS is governed by a document called “The Bylaws” You can find them here on the website. In order to make changes to how the ASGS is run sometimes the bylaws need changing. This is intentionally a somewhat slow process and involves:
- the board discusses an idea for change if it’s agreed we pursue by passing a motion
- an email is sent to the Bylaws and Steering Committee explaining what the board wants done
- The Bylaws and Steering Committee then meets to discuss the proposed changes and 1) reviews the current bylaws looking for words that need to be added or removed to meet the request of the board. 2) The committee can also include it’s opinion about the proposed change: is the change a good idea or not and why 3) When their work is done they send their results back to the board.
- The board must now review and vote twice with a time gap between the votes, on the proposed changes before the bylaw change goes into effect.
At last night’s BOD meeting the board voted yes for the first of the two votes need to change the bylaws on these three items: 1) How to elect a replacement President elect if the current one resigns while in office 2) How to cancel an ASGS membership 3) Reduce the time between bylaws votes from 4 months to 2 months. The exact wording of each proposed change can be found on the BOD Meeting records page here. All three proposed changes need to wait at least 4 months before they can be voted on a second time. Only if both votes are successful does the proposed change become part of the bylaws.
Videos on the Website Work continues with editing our videos for posting to our video library. The search function for searching through video descriptions is proving to be troublesome. I had been waiting till it was working to release videos. It seems that it might take quite some time till it’s sorted out so I’ve started posting to the video library and will keep adding in the coming days. The arrangement we have with The Flow magazine to watch our videos on their website seems to be broken again. Requests are in with the Flow to adjust their website but so far the changes haven’t been made. This adds to my motivation to get our videos on our website for our members that much sooner.
